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[In compliance with duties imposed by the Social Security Act,
Government officials have made various studies pertaining to pro
visions of the Act. These studies have developed the belief that cer
tain changes should be made in the Social Security Act in order to
meet the needs of American people. Because the editor of the
Charlotte Labor Journal feels that residents of this section wish to
know what changes are contemplated and because he thinks that his
readers are entitled to such information, this paper in co-operation
with the Charlotte office of the Social Security Board is presenting a
series of articles explaining the proposed revisions. Given below is
the fifth installment of this series.—Editor.]
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
One part of the Social Security Act in which wage earners
are particularly concerned is called Unemployment Compensa
tion or “job insurance.” Unemployment Compensation means
insurance protection against the loss of a job. It is intended to
make sure that while a worker is jobless through no fault of his
own, he will have something to live on. If he qualifies under
the unemployment insurance law, he can get weekly insurance
benefits to tide him over until he can go back to work.
Unemployment compensation is ad
ministered by the State, although the
Federal Government pays the cost of
administraiton. All State Unemploy
ment Compensation laws provided
weekly benefits to insured workers
who are temporarily unemployed.
They all require employers to con
tribute to a fund, out of which bene
fits are paid. Each State decides who
is eligible for benefits, the amount
of benefits and the number of weeks
during which they may be paid. Cov
erage is not the same in all States.
For instance a man in Maryland who
works for a shop having four or more
employees is covered by unemploy
ment insurance. But in Virginia, West
Virginia, North Carolina (and some
other States) a business having only
four employees would not come under
the law because in those States only
employees of industrial or business
concerns having eight or more em
ployees are covered, unless an em
ployer is subject to this law, his em
ployees do not receive unemployment
compensation benefits, when they are
without work.
Around three million employees of
small-sized firms throughout the
United States are excluded from cov
erage by State unemployment com
pensation laws, although these same
workers are covered under the Fed
eral old-age and survivors insurance
system.
Many workers have changed jobs
from time to time during the war pro
duction era. They move from State
to State and often stay in one place
only a short time. No one State has
a complete record of all wages earned
by these roving workers. Those who
are employed in more than one State
run the risk of losing part of their
benefit rights, because employment
in each State is considered separate
ly, in determining workers’ qualifica
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DONNELLEY PRINTING CONCERN
NAMED IN NLRB COMPLAINT;
OCT. 18 SET FOR HEARING CASE
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago printing concern
which for more than 35 years has maintained an “airtight” black*
list of printing trades unionists, is the defendant to a complaint
issued on Sept. 27 by the National Labor Relations Board and
signed by George Bott, NLRB regional director.
me Doara charges uonnetley wun
dismissing and demoting employees
because of union membership or sym
pathy; urging employees to refrain
from joining unions; making dispar
aging and derogatory remarks against
unions to its employees; asserting it
would maintain an “open shop” policy
by excluding union members from its
employ, and consistently violating
the National Labor Relations Act.
Russell Packard, head of the legal
staff for the 8th region of the NLRB,
with offices at Cleveland, is being es
pecially assigned to present the Gov
ernment’s case against Donnelley at
the hearing which will open at Chicago
on Oct. 18. A trial examiner will be
sent from the national offices at
Washington, D. C.
The NLRB’s complaint against the
anti-union printing house is the out
growth of charges filed some months
ago by Chicago Printing Trades
Unions, a central group comprising
18 Chicago locals of the Photo-En
gravers, Pressmen and Assistants,
Stereo typers and Electrotypers, Typo
graphical, Bookbinders, Lithographers
and several other internationals.
Chicago Printing Trades Unions
also are party to a case against Don
nelley’s which has been before the
War Labor Board for some months.
A three-man panel, designated by the
WLB to hear the case, divided three
ways. The labor member recommend
ed collective bargaining; the public
member, grievance recognition; the
employer member, reference of the
dispute to the NLRB. The “big board”
itself has had the case since June.
This WLB case grew out of the unions’
enforcement of their “struck work”
clause in refusing to handle Donnel
ley jobs.
Among Donnelley’s principal con
tracts are Time and Life magazines,
Reader’s Digest, catalogs for Mont
gomery Ward and other mail-order
houses, publications of the Presby
terian Board of Christian Education,
Bibles and tracts for the American
Bible Society, and house organs for
distribution among employees of Gen
eral Motors, U. S. Steel, Monsanto
Chemical and other gigantic concerns.
Chicago Printing Trades Unions
maintain offices at 608 S. Dearborn
street and at 301 East Cermak road,
across the street from the main Don
nelley plant.
tions for benefits and in determining
the amount of benefits. Consequent
ly, when the time comes for them to
claim job insurance benefits, it will
be difficult to prove their right to full
payment.
Changes in the law, recommended
by the Social Security Board, would:
1. Insure adequate out-of-work pay
ments to workers in all states.
2. Remove existing inequalities as
to eligibility and payments.
3. Remove tax inequalities between
competing employers in different
States.
4. Reduce the number of tax returns
and wage reports required of employ
ers.
NEXT: “Children Who Are Left
Without Means of Support.”
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Questions—Answers
Q. What are Seabees?
A. Construction Battalions of
the U. S. Navy. Name is
derived from phonetic pro
nunciation of the initials.
Q. Who are Seabees?
A. ronstruction workers, skilled
echanics of all kinds, long
!• oremen—in general, men
who can build and maintain
fighting naval ba-es.
Q. Why are Seabees?
A. Seabees exist because the
Navy decided during Jap
attacks on Guam, Wake and
Cavite, that dangerous con
struction jobs should be
done by Naval personnel,
trained for fighting as well
as building.
Q. Where are Seaoees?
A. All over the world. Every
where the Navy is engaging,
or preparing to engage, the
enemy.
Q. Can dratt-age men join the
Seabees?
A. Yes, by applying for volun
tary induction at Navy Re
cruiting Station^ Aen 38-50
and uths 17 may enlist.
LEAVE STAGE
SCREEN FOR RED
CROSS DUTY
—V—
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Costumes
of the stage and screen have been
traded for Red Cross uniforms by two
members of AFL theatrical unions.
Myrna Loy today is a full time mem
ber of the Red Cross North Atlantic
area staff, filling the post of assist
ant to the director of Military and
Naval Welfare. Miss Loy is a mem
ber of the Screen Actors’ Guild.
A “safe arrival” this week in North
Africa is KatheriAe V. Johnson, mem
ber of the Actors’ Equity Associa
tion, who acted on the professional
stage with the Stuart Walker Reper
toire Company of Cincinnati and the
Wilbur Players, Honolulu, T. H. and
San Francisco. Leaving the stage
after 15 years, Miss Johnson was ex
(Ohio) Red Cross chapter before her
ecutive secretary of the Franklin
foreign assignment. She will serve
the armed forces as a hospital rec
leation worker.
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Kaltenborn Kicks
Traces On C. B. S.
“Restrictions”
—V—
Her H. Von Kaltenborn, self
appointed “dean of news an
alysts” doesn’t like the Columbia
Broadcasting System’s edict
against airing personal opinions
over the air. Von Kaltenborn is
on NBC, and he has used his time
to attack organized labor at ev
ery opportunity. He recently
aroused a storm of criticism when
he said that unorganized workers
in aircraft factories had a better
production record than organized
workers. Labor leaders and air
plane factory executives proved
definitely that Kaltenborn LIED.
That’s what Columbia is attempt
ing to stop. Kaltenborn doesn’t
like it! Who gives a damn WHAT
Kaltenborn LIKES?
WILLIAM GREEN, President of
the American Federation of Labor,
reporting that the guns, tanks and
ships supplied to ou rarmed forces
were 85 per cent union made: “The
bullet that will finally end Hitler’s
life will bear the union label.”
50,000 Families
Feel Effects Of
Laundry Strike
—V—
ATLANTA.—Monday long has been i
known as “wash day,” but for 50,000
families in Metropolitan Atlanta it
was just another nickname today.
The four-day-old strike of 1,300
members of the Laundry Workers In
ternational (AFL) continued and nine
of the city’s laundries were idle. Clean
clothes were becoming scarce.
George Googe, Southeastern rep
resentative of the American Federa
tion of Labor, charged the operators
with a “technical lockout” and declared
they had canceled a contract with the
union while negotiations were in prog
ress.
S. R. Greenblatt, president of Gold
Shield Laundries, holding company
for the nine plants, said, the company
had “tried to negotiate the renewal
contract” and while trying to do so
the workers walked out.
The workers have asked for a 45
cen an hour minimum against the
prevailing 18-cent rate with time and
a half for overtime and a 40-hour
week. Greenblatt said the company
had offered a raise of “from three to
eight cents an hour,” in addition to
piece work rates.
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